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Nikkei celebrate at ‘Queer O-bon’
July 6, 2023 by Akira Olivia Kumamoto, Nichi Bei News
LOS ANGELES — On June 19, Okaeri, an advocacy group for LGBTQ+ Nikkei, held their first “Queer O-bon” at the Terasaki Budokan in the city’s Little Tokyo. Colorful origami […] READ MORE
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50 years after ‘Coda’s’ debut centering a queer romantic triangle
June 22, 2023 by Greg Robinson, Nichi Bei News
This column forms part of a series on the Queer history of Japanese Americans that I publish each June to mark LGBT Pride month. This year’s installment discusses Alberto Isaac’s […] READ MORE
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S.F.’s Japantown proclaims queer pride
July 7, 2022 by Nichi Bei News
Amy Sueyoshi never imagined that the rainbow Pride flag would be raised in San Francisco’s Japantown. The dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University told […] READ MORE
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Creating Space For Queer Nikkei: Okaeri holds online conference to educate and form community
December 9, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
Delayed by about a year, and held wholly online, Okaeri Los Angeles held its fourth conference to connect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Nikkei and their allies from across […] READ MORE
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THE GREAT UNKNOWN AND THE UNKNOWN GREAT: K.T. Takahashi: Transnational Japanese American writer
June 24, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
During the last years of the 19th century, Kazutomo (aka Kadzu Tomo) Takahashi settled in Montreal, Quebec, where he operated a book and magazine store. Although Takahashi’s career in Montreal […] READ MORE
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5 Queer Nikkei ancestors everyone should know about
July 2, 2020 by Nichi Bei News
As we uplift the achievements and ongoing struggles of LGBTQ communities this Pride season — which, friendly reminder, exists because Black trans women rioted against police violence — we want […] READ MORE
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L.A. ministers criticize anti-gay policy of United Methodist Churches
April 11, 2019 by Nichi Bei News
LOS ANGELES — Disturbed by the United Methodist Church’s continuing anti-gay stance, Revs. Mark Nakagawa and Sunyoung Lee, two local ministers with connections to Little Tokyo’s Centenary United Methodist Church, […] READ MORE
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Queering the inquiry of Asian American art
July 19, 2018 by Nichi Bei News
QUEERING CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN ART Edited By Laura Kina and Jan Christian Bernabe (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017, 296 pp., $90 hardcover; $40 paperback) This anthology grows out of […] READ MORE
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THE GREAT UNKNOWN AND THE UNKNOWN GREAT: Unmasking the complexities of documenting queer Nikkei sexuality and history
June 21, 2018 by Nichi Bei News
This week’s column marks the 12th entry in the annual series on queer Japanese American history that I have undertaken to mark LGBT Pride Month. Previous entries have shed light […] READ MORE
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Japanese American becomes majority owner of LGBTQ newspaper
January 4, 2018 by Nichi Bei News
Michael Yamashita, 51, publisher of the Bay Area Reporter, a San Francisco-based LGBTQ newspaper, became the newspaper’s majority owner, the publication announced Dec. 21, 2017. According to the B.A.R., Yamashita […] READ MORE
